October 8, 2017

Farm Workers in Danger Zone

Pesticides are poison. Still you see a farm worker spraying the crops without any protective gear/clothing. Farm workers need to put on protective gears while spraying pesticides.  Devinder […]
August 25, 2017

GM Mustard can meet edible Oil demand

Ankur Aggarwal On 11 May 2017, India’s regulator for transgenic products, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) under the Environment Ministry recommended approval for commercial production […]
July 17, 2017

Make Agriculture attractive for Youth

Ankur Aggarwal “Everybody needs food, nobody wants to grow it”, said Nana Patekar, recently, from a public platform. The actor-turned farmers’ activist was voicing a concern […]
March 24, 2017

Without a Separate Farmers’ Income Commission, Doubling Farmers’ Income not possible

There is a need to look beyond crop productivity, contract farming and privatization of markets and provide farmers with an assured income package every month, writes […]